Genesis interpretations - how many are there?

[Drich]

So, by "die" magic book meant "will live a thousand years".

So by die it means that whatever form Adam took in the Garden with Eve died, and now will live with eve in the after life for 930 years. Adam works backwards from us, can't you see that? His life starts with God end in this Hell. We start with life in this Hell and end with God Death being the gateway for both! (don't know where that came from just wrote it out, but it jives with scripture so it good)

By "dust" magic book meant "carbon"

what is the dust of the ground's primary elemental componet.. what do you call carbon before there was a word for it morn? you describe it and give it your name. It's no different that speaking english to someone who speak korean. start with a common understanding then seek nuance. how are you this dense?

By "rib" magic book meant "DNA"

same thing bubble boy how do you describe something in a language that there is no word for?

....and the sun is a redundant piece of stellar bric a brac to photosynthetics.

No light was created day one

The sun came by later.

This means the sun is not the only lght plants can grow by... every hear of hydroponics??? kinda of a science thing... might want to google it before you "jorge" yourself into looking far more stupid than need be simply because you're trying to troll a topic and over look it obvious connection.

I;m not exactly filled with confidence that magic book can say what it means and mean what it says, or that the god that wrote it had a firm grip on how the earth (and it;s biota) formed.

 God almighty, help me..
YOU and this language is NOT the corner stone of society you think it to be. Look and listen white bread. outside your little world a much much larger world exist that has nothing to do with your piddly means of conveyance. Do you understand that your foundation for all knowledge seems to stem from the idea that english or your version of it is the galactic base language as it is in star wars. meaning for you all intelligence can be measured by how well someone knows or can communicate to you in your comfort language.

Listen only going to do this once...

THE WORLD DOES NOT EVOLVE NOR REVOLVE AROUND ENGLISH SPEAKING WESTERNERS. Meaning not every explanation not every word is going to have a word for word translation. and just because you can not proof a ancient text with MODERN ENGLISH WORDS Does not devalue the non english material.

You probable have no idea what I'm talking about... let me break it down so everyone can see how stupid you are:
you said:

I;m not exactly filled with confidence that magic book can say what it means and mean what it says, or that the god that wrote it had a firm grip on how the earth (and it;s biota) formed.

where to begin with this fun fest of hillbilly logic.. So the HB (Hill billy) looking at a literal english translation comes across a passage like man came from dust.. the hb looks at himself and says I'm not dust I'm flesh and bone.. (never mind what the majority of dust is human skin fragments nor what our bones turn into once decalcified) Then it is explained.. So the hillbilly then mocks the descriptive way the bible has to use to speak to men 5000 years ago. Then the HB reads A&E died, but then read they are alive on earth... So rather than think about it for a tick, the HB mocks the idea of how one can be alive but dead... all the while in the bigger grand scheme the whole book is about living after death, but because someone did not hold the HB hand through this process the first time he can not make the connection on his own, and in the HB eye... if this were supposed to be a book written by God he would not have to be made to think about stuff, that the answer should be shown him off the top. The poor HB doesn't understand that just because the truth does not illude everyone as it does him. And it only does so because he uses his Hillbilly life experience to judge what is not meant to be judge by a hill billy. Fore what measure what life experience could a hill billy possible have to make such a statement.

This, seems to me..to be more reason to distrust magic book than acknowledging that at least some parts of it are intentionally metaphoric.

what magic? there isn't much in this book we can't do now ourselves moron. Again any sufficiently advance technology is indistinguishable to a less advanced person. Nothing in the bible says God has to be magic HB. You assume that because you HB ways demand it. Your HB ways will not allow God to grow with your understanding of his creation. However if you did you'd be able to use science to know more of God.

bible says Jesus=Son of God

You just -might- be missing an idiom, not entirely unlike the whole "you will die, will die" spiel daddy god gives his naked garden frolicking teenagers.

bible says Jesus to take part in 7 day creation

Idiom, again.  Seven was considered a sacred number, it;s use denotes perfection of process, not a strict accounting of a length of time.

bible says Jesus to actually enact bring fourth the will of the father here.

....and?

Again it does not matter what people think about God. If you are worshiping the God of the bible then it only matter what the bible says about God. do you dig that?

I still don;t see any necessity for a literal reading of genesis.  

If The bible says Jesus says he was apart of ABC then that become cannon which becomes apart of the belief system. take away this work and Jesus is not what He claims to be.

Your inability to believe in the event that genesis is the fairy tale that it;s always been is no barrier to god belief..or even to there being a god.  

can't see a problem with that? then that is fine let the christians worry about that

..............they don;t...though, which is why I asked you.  You worry about it enough to make a fool of yourself time and time again where no one else seems to find any need or utility.
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again hb let the christians worry about such things... you need not hurt yourself worrying about 'doctrine.'